MAJALLI WAHABI


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Majalli Wahabi

I think my appointment is the example and answer for those who accuse Israel of being an apartheid state. It shows minorities have equal rights and we are part of the government, the state and the parliament
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There were some accusations that Israeli was an apartheid state. There are a number of Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset and the Government. There are no Jews in any political position in any Islamic nation except Turkey. In the apartheid state of South Africa, there was no black member of parliament or government official.

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Majalli Wahabi is an Israeli Druze politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, Kadima and Hatnuah between 2003 and 2013. He briefly assumed the position of Acting President due to President Moshe Katzav's leave of absence and Interim President Dalia Itzik's trip abroad in February 2007, making him the first non-Jew and the first Druze to act as Israel's head of state.